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>    1. Take a ride on the Inequality Subway (Anders Pedersen)
>    2. Re: Take a ride on the Inequality Subway (Nicolas Patte)
>    3. D3 Hackathon, looking for templates (Mariano Blejman)
>    4. Re: [School-of-data] scraping data with a bookmarklet:
>       Convextra (Scott Hannaford)
>    5. Re: [School-of-data] scraping data with a bookmarklet:
>       Convextra (Michael Bauer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:11:46 -0400
> From: Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org>
> Subject: [ddj] Take a ride on the Inequality Subway
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> Hi all,
> (sorry for cross posting)
>
> The New Yorker just ran a simple visualisation of inequality along the
> subway lines of New York city:
> http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html
>
> The visualisation is based on data from US Census for areas of each
> subway station.
>
> I'm quite sure that many other data journalists have already done
> identical experiments on both inequality and other topics like:
> - public health
> - crime
> - education
>
> I'd be interested to hear if any of you have examples to share?
>
> Anders
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:53:21 +0200
> From: Nicolas Patte <np at owni.fr>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] Take a ride on the Inequality Subway
> To: "List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism."
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> don't miss a variation from this one, produced by noah veltman:
> http://noahveltman.com/nysubway/
>
> (btw)
>
> On 18 April 2013 23:11, Anders Pedersen <anders.pedersen at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > (sorry for cross posting)
> >
> > The New Yorker just ran a simple visualisation of inequality along the
> > subway lines of New York city:
> > http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html
> >
> > The visualisation is based on data from US Census for areas of each
> > subway station.
> >
> > I'm quite sure that many other data journalists have already done
> > identical experiments on both inequality and other topics like:
> > - public health
> > - crime
> > - education
> >
> > I'd be interested to hear if any of you have examples to share?
> >
> > Anders
> >
> > --
> > Anders Pedersen
> > Community Coordinator
> > OpenSpending
> > Open Knowledge Foundation
> > Twitter: @anpe
> > Skype: anpehej
> >
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> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:11:16 -0300
> From: Mariano Blejman <mblejman at knight.icfj.org>
> Subject: [ddj] D3 Hackathon, looking for templates
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> Hi there,
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> This saturday we're hanging out a hackathon about D3.js, with almost 100
> people subscribed
> <http://www.meetup.com/HacksHackersBA/events/111996022/>in HHBuenos
> Aires. I'm wondering if someone here can share some D3
> visualization templates (ready to use, or easy to customize) toward the
> hackathon.
>
> Cheers.
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> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:17:04 +1000
> From: Scott Hannaford <scott.hannaford at fairfaxmedia.com.au>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] [School-of-data] scraping data with a bookmarklet:
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> Did someone work out how to do the multi-page scraping using Convextra? I
> don't seem to be able to find an option for more than one page.
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> *Scott Hannaford*
> Sunday Editor - The Canberra Times
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> On 11 April 2013 01:46, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Just discovered: http://convextra.com/ - it allows you to install a
> >> bookmarklet and scrape webpages without coding - simply by analyzing the
> >> structure.
> >>
> >
> > If privacy matters for your scraping, note that this is a web service, so
> > they, of course,  can monitor everything that you scrape.
> >
> > Tom
> >
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> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:10:41 +0200
> From: Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org>
> Subject: Re: [ddj] [School-of-data] scraping data with a bookmarklet:
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> Scott,
>
> If there is any sort of pagination present Convextra will offer you the
> possibility to do pages. This only works for lists with pagination though
> (not something where you have a list of links to pages and want to scrape
> all subpages).
>
> Michael
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:17:04AM +1000, Scott Hannaford wrote:
> > Did someone work out how to do the multi-page scraping using Convextra? I
> > don't seem to be able to find an option for more than one page.
> > Thanks,
> > Scott
> >
> > *Scott Hannaford*
> > Sunday Editor - The Canberra Times
> > 9 Pirie Street, Fyshwick, ACT, 2609
> > *T* (02) 6280 2209 *|* *M* 0417 272 498 *|* *E*
> > scott.hannaford at fairfaxmedia.com.au
> >
> > <
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11 April 2013 01:46, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Michael Bauer <
> michael.bauer at okfn.org>wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Just discovered: http://convextra.com/ - it allows you to install a
> > >> bookmarklet and scrape webpages without coding - simply by analyzing
> the
> > >> structure.
> > >>
> > >
> > > If privacy matters for your scraping, note that this is a web service,
> so
> > > they, of course,  can monitor everything that you scrape.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
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